On 18 October 2011 20:17, Duncan Coutts
Initially I think we only need the "null" policy of setting upload time only, and the policy useful for a live public mirror of the central hackage server.
I've implemented this: * Packages default to being uploaded by the mirrorer at the standard time, just as now * Two URLs exist (e.g. /package/edit-distance-0.2.1/edit-distance-0.2.1.tar.gz/upload-time and /package/edit-distance-0.2.1/edit-distance-0.2.1.tar.gz/uploader) that any mirrorer can PUT to to set these two bits of information * The mirror client does make use of these URLs * PUTting a user name that does not currently exist on the server creates an historical account I didn't take the extra step of using a Maybe type to explicitly distinguish packages with no uploader other than the mirrorer. BTW, what is the motivation for being able to rename users? This extra layer of indirection makes quite a few things more ugly (e.g. currently we can only build URLs by *username* - there are no URLs to select users by id), and is fairly unusual - in my experience very few sites allow account renaming. Max